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Off-Topic / Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
« on: February 27, 2021, 11:34:22 pm »Message ID: 1351830
As I had mentioned in a reply to another poster, I am a professional Scrabble player who plays for money in NASPA tournaments. Unfortunately due to Covid we have not been able to get together and have any tourneys for a long time, hopefully this summer, so a poor alternative is to play online. I was playing one of my friends online the other day and he told me that a lot of words are being canceled I haven't seen the list yet but in Adult Tournament Scrabble curse words, slang, and slurs have always been allowed because they are just words to make points we don't usually think or worry about the meaning of them, as a matter of fact it is not necessary to know the meanings but it can help. It is hard enough to learn the thousands of words you need to know to help you be a better player now we have to unlearn words, what a joke If you don't unlearn these words and use them you can be challenged off and it could cost you a game. Right now we can still use them online on the site I play on but who knows for how long? Maybe they will reconsider when we start playing live again and people start complaining